The Art of the Northern Renaissance

The Art of the Northern Renaissance

This book evokes the art of fifteenth- and sixteenthcentury
Northern Europe in all its richness and splendor.
The works of Van Eyck, Bosch, Bruegel, Dürer, and other
masters are considered within the larger context of a
changing society in which church and state, Protestant
and Catholic, man and woman, artist and patron,
independent mercantile city and noble chivalric court all
played a part.
Craig Harbison considers these and many other facets
of the Renaissance world, drawing them together into
a unifi ed narrative that illuminates the complexity and
brilliance of the art and its times.

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Size: 6 1⁄2 × 9 1 ⁄4 in 121 illustrations, 104 in color in;Pages: 176 pp pp;Format: Paperback
Publication: July 2012ISBN: 9781780670270ISBN10: 1780670273
Craig Harbison is Professor Emeritus of art history at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Jan van Eyck,
The Play of Realism.